Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21
Political and Personal,

Tho late Washington lobbyist, Charles H
Sherslll had On income of from GEO, 600 tc
$50, 000 "a year.
january -, the legislature Of Nevada
elected Vim. NJ. Stewart, United States
Senator, 10y the vote of 46 to 20.
l The Democratic Legislative caucus at In
dianapolis selected Judge David Turpie as
its candidate for U. s. senator.
The Democratic caucus of the California
| legislature has endorsed ex-senator Geo.
| Hearst for the United States Senate.
P. Henry Dugro the grand sachen of
Tammany hall, has resigned. County Clerk
James A. Flack has been elected to succeed
him.
The Connecticut legislature chooses Gen.
j r. Hawley to s~cceed himself in theUnited
States Senate. He had no Republican op-
position.
The legislature Of Pennsylvania has elected
Hon NJ. S. Quay United States Senator in
place of John I. Mitchell. The Maine legis-
lat1re elects Eugene Hale to succeed him
self in the u s. Senate. The Missouri legis-
lature REFLECTS Senator Cockerill
The funeral of Chief Justice jackson of
Georgia took place at Atlanta on Sunday.
Before the civil war he was prominent
member Of congress.
The craftsmanship of the Senate Com
mittee on Military affairs, which Gen, Lo-
gan has held for years will probably 20 to
Senator Sewell Of New Jersey.
Secretary of the Interior Lamar and Mrs.
Holt were married at Macon, Ca, Jan. 5.
They were lovers as youth and maiden, and
now when both are grandparents the romance
of their young days has its elimination.
Eleven thousand dollars was subscribed
on Wednesday to the fund for Mrs Logan,
making a total of $26,O00, at the close of the
second day after starting the fund.-
U. F. Snider, deputy controller of the cur
rency, has been appointed examiner of the
national banks at the cities of New York,
Brooklyn and Jersey City, in place of A. M.
Serbia.
COL W. S. King, of Minneapolis, who re-
covered $4,000, 600 in his Remington suit has
paid Hon. John Van VOORHEES,, of Rochester,
his principal counsel, fee of $4,000. The
fees OF the remaining counsel are in proper
ton.
Hon S. S. Cox is quite i'll, on the 10Th hav-
ing all alarming hemorrhage of the stomach,
with indications Of pneumonia. Mr.. Cox
says he contracted a severe cold shortly
after the holidays by sleeping in his room at
the hotel before it had been properly heated
and that his present illness is the result
Mrs. Abbey Kelly Foster died at her home
at Worcester, Mass, Jan. IA, at the age of
Is. Forty years ago, as Abbey Kelly, she
was a leader in the anti slavery cause, with
VIM. Lloyd Garrison Parker Pillsbury,
Theodore Parker and Stephen S. Foster, the
latter becoming her husband, She was an
eloquent speaker and did much for the
cause. She is survived by one daugter, a
teacher in the Boston public schools.
August Spies, the condemned Chicago
anarchist and Miss Nina Clark Van Zandt,
an heiress of 100000 were to have been
married in the cell of the prison but the
clerk of the court refused to issue mar
riage license, on the ground that the con
viction of murder was a ground for
divorce, and bar to marriage. The young
lady is we'll connected ard was born at
Chicago in 1867, and belongs to the same
church as Judge Gary who sentenced
Spies to be hung.